26 June 2008

Being a child of the 60's, a lot of my music memory is wrapped up in the folk music of the time. I recently stumbled on a site that has quickly become one of my favorites. It is Pandora, a site that allows you to enter your favorite artists and hear a continuous stream of tunes by the artist you named or performers like them in style or material. The link is at Pandora. Try it out and let me know what you think. If you like Lightfoot, Paxton, Simon & Garfunkel or John Denver I think you will enjoy this site. Oh, and did I mention...it's Free!!!

25 June 2008

For those of you who are interested, I have added a picture of a bald eagle in flight that I took this spring. It was taken down in Caroline County on the banks of the Rappahannock River. I've spent a lot of time there this spring and there wasn't a weekend that we did not see eagles in flight. None of the others were considerate enough to fly by me carrying a fish home for dinner.

10 June 2008

I received one of those action memos today informing me that the Secretary of The Interior is considering a rule change that would allow those with permits to carry a concealed weapon to carry loaded and concealed weapons in the national parks. What do you think? Would you carry one if you had a permit? Will you feel safer in a park knowing that people around you might be carrying a weapon?

05 June 2008

Assault with fish lands man in jail

June 3, 2008 12:15 am

A series of incidents involving a fish and his own private parts landed a Fredericksburg man in jail Sunday, police said.

City police spokeswoman Natatia Bledsoe said the suspect's troubles
started Saturday about 8:30 a.m. at the 7-Eleven on Dixon Street.

Three people were at the gas pumps when the suspect entered the
store. The witnesses said they noticed the suspect because he was
singing very loudly.

A 40-year-old man was looking at the suspect when he came out of the
store still being loud. This caught the attention of the suspect, who
picked up a rock and hit the man in the neck.

Bledsoe said the man's 32-year-old friend then got out of the car
and confronted the suspect about throwing the rock. The suspect grabbed
a fish out of his car and hit the friend in the face with it.

The suspect threw a beer bottle onto the vehicle at the gas pump,
which belonged to the fish victim's girlfriend. Witnesses said he
dropped his pants and flashed his private parts to all three.

The suspect, who the victims said they didn't know, drove off before
police arrived. But Bledsoe said police got a photo from the store's
security camera and took it around the neighborhood.

Residents identified the suspect as 21-year-old Marcellus Coleman.
On Sunday, police got a tip that Coleman was in an abandoned house on
Myrick Street.

Police found him there and took him into custody. Bledsoe said that
as Coleman was being led to the police cruiser, he spit on a resident
who he apparently believed informed police of his whereabouts. The
spitting led to an assault charge.

Coleman was also charged with malicious wounding, destruction of
property and indecent exposure. He was placed in the Rappahannock
Regional Jail under no bond.

I don't know what the penalty is for carrying a concealed flounder but on a scale of 1 to 10 it should not be that bad. I mean a guy's got to get some credit for stuffing that fish wherever he stuffed it. I mean they don't even make a flounder holster do they?

And people wonder why I call Fredericksburg, "Mayberry On Crack". Heck we even have our own Ernest T. Bass.